Forestry Tasmania's Plan Ridiculed

The latter is still studying the possibilities of setting up the stations - the biomass plants - so as to cut down on the amount of smoke discharged during eucalypt forest regeneration burns.

To this, Alistair Graham of the Trust says: "There is nothing more perverse and unhelpful that could be done in the whole wide world than for managers of native forests to log them and stick them in a power station."

"To go the one step further and try and claim that this is in some way renewable is deeply offensive to those that actually care about the future of the planet," he also stated.

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